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Chapter 243 The Pacific Railway (First update, please subscribe)
How to ensure that the railway is not destroyed!

This is the only problem with the use of railways to carry out blitzkrieg. Compared with tanks and armored vehicles, trains cannot play without the railways. It is very simple to prevent the enemy from using the railways - demolish the railway tracks and blow up the railways. But things.

And this is the most difficult part of implementing this plan.As soon as the railroad was destroyed, the surprise attack turned into a raid.But they also have a corresponding response plan.

"Whether the surprise attack will be successful or not is subject to many chances. We will implement it according to the plan, and leave the rest to God!"

Zhu Xianhai said.

"For the time being, I am more concerned about another matter - the Yunling Tunnel! The tunnel has not been completed yet, and we can only send armored trains and military supplies to Linhai by sea. This section is between Nanhua and Linhai. If you don’t get through this tunnel, there will be no conquest at all!”

The so-called "Yunling Tunnel" is not a tunnel, but a tunnel group consisting of six tunnels, which is the most complicated section of the railway through the Andes Mountains. These tunnels have been under construction for several years and have not yet been completed.

Frowning, Zhu Xianhai emphasized.

"We must understand one thing - since Napoleon, no country has been conquered. Now we are going to conquer and occupy Chile - after implementing this plan, it is bound to arouse repercussions all over the world, and it is very likely that It will cause the entire America to be hostile to us. Gentlemen! I think we will probably have to fight with the Americas—hey, that’s enough. At that time, how should we deal with all this? There are too many sea route support logistics uncertainties."

The railway has been under construction for almost five years, but the Andes Mountains, which are thousands of miles above sea level, have restricted the speed of railway construction, and even the completion period has been delayed again and again.
With a forced smile, Zhu Xianhai said.

"This is also a problem that we must work hard to solve before implementing this plan!"

In fact, the reason why Zhu Xianhai took a special train to enter the mountain this time was to supervise and inspect the progress of the railway construction, and then walk over the Andes to Linhai.

……

Time flies day by day, amidst the sound of rumbling cannons, the tunnel is extending forward little by little.

Although it was midsummer in February, the temperature on the tunnel construction site at an altitude of more than [-] meters was only in the tens of degrees, but the laborers in the tunnel were still sweating profusely with hammers and steel drills to drill the holes. There was no wind in this era. Cannon, only the most primitive manual hole drilling, filling explosives detonator detonation.

This is how people fight against the solid granite, bit by bit to dig out a tunnel in the mountain, the sound of iron hammer hammers echoing day and night in the tunnel, as well as the explosion sound of homework blasting, the sound of explosion is always in the silent Echoed in the mountains.

Inside the tunnel, there were clanging, clanging blows.The mountain water seeping from the top of the tunnel dripped on the faces of the workers, and no one paid any attention to it, letting the water drip down the clothes and pants and land on the ground.

"Brothers, work hard, I heard that Erlang Peak is about to open up, let's work hard..."

Sun Sanwei, who was holding an iron chisel, shouted, and Wang Caiwang, who was wielding an iron hammer, wiped the water from his face and said with a smile

"Hey, let's work harder, one day sooner, the reward will be more!"

Li Husheng jokingly said:

"That's right, the more days in advance, the more rewards, and when everything is cleared up, the rewards may be worth a month's wages."

The laborers in the tunnel all grinned happily.

Zhao Linbin laughed as he listened to what the brothers said. Perhaps they were laughing so happily that they forgot the work at hand, but even so, there were faint sounds of iron brazing and two hammers.

"Wait, wait, don't laugh..."

Yang Linbin shouted.

Then he leaned against the stone wall and listened, and this time he could hear the voice more clearly.

"It's okay, it's okay, that's right, it's the voice from the other side..."

While excited, Yang Linbin did not forget to shout.

"Quick, tell the captain quickly, I heard the voice on the other side, and send a telegram quickly..."

"Everyone work hard! Tonight, the tunnel was opened!"

As he said that, Yang Linbin grabbed a hammer, looked at the iron rod, and hammered it fiercely.

The knocking sound of the second iron hammer sounded again.

Soon, finally, after the holes were drilled, the laborers pressed the explosives into the holes.A few minutes later, accompanied by a series of loud noises, the tunnel was full of dust, and after a while, in the choking dust, there was a series of explosions in the tunnel, which made the mountain tremble. A cloud of dust gushes out of the tunnel along with the explosion.

"It's cleared, it's cleared...the tunnel is cleared..."

They all know that there is no need to enter the tunnel. The smoke is the smoke from the blast from the opposite side.
The tunnel is complete!

For a while, the whole construction site was boiling.

……

On February 1866, 2, with the opening of the last tunnel, the tunnel was opened, the arch walls were built, and the rails were laid.

A railway passes through mountains and ridges, across the land of South America.Shiny steel rails were laid all the way from Nanhua to Linhai. This railway started construction in Nanhua in July 1861 and Linhai in November. Finally, it was connected as a whole in February.

On the land of South America, a steel avenue was born!

On March 3th, a train approached the front of Yunling Tunnel. After the train stopped, Zhu Xianhai got off the train. After learning that the tunnel was completed, he has been waiting for the time when the railway was connected. One day, today, the railway is finally open to traffic, and he will drive the last spike symbolically - nailing this spike also means that the Pacific Railway will be opened to traffic.

"My lord, look, this is Yunling. It's because of the fog that the big guys call it Yunling..."

Wang Yingjiu pointed to the clouds and mists slowly rising on the hillside and said.

"Well, this name is well chosen, and it is very descriptive. Yunling... the mountain is just like its name!"

Zhu Xianhai laughed.

With the influx of a large number of Chinese laborers, many Chinese-style place names have appeared in the Andes. These place names are often imagined by the laborers looking at their appearance, but these are Chinese-style place names, which are the Chinese-style place names left by the Chinese on this land. blot down.

Of course, this also means some kind of claim—declaring that the Chinese people are integrated with this land. When these place names appear on the map, when Chinese-style titles appear on this continent, this is not Conquest is not occupation, but integration - from this moment, the Chinese nation has become the master of this land just like the Europeans back then.

Dozens of minutes later, amidst people's gazes, Zhu Xianhai hammered a gold-plated spike into the sleeper—the Pacific Railway was opened to traffic!
(End of this chapter)